All about the genuine Sabah Claim Society

We are Philippine patriots who have grouped together from around the world and who created the Sabah Claim Society group originally on Facebook on 15 July 2011 and counted close to 6,000 members.

But on 5 October 2011 our group on Facebook was traitorously hijacked by two people we had invited to join us as group admins but who, we learned later on, had been hired to sabotage our patriotic group by a group of sinister individuals sporting fake European sounding nobility titles and other spurious Tausug/Sulu titles ['bestowed' and indiscriminately distributed on Facebook] and organized by a combined team of charlatans namely a datu (sporting a fake sultan title) and the latter's handler who is conveniently sporting an absolutely fake 'princely' title as well.

Please be warned that the said group of individuals, we believe, are in fact con artists out to "claim" Sabah for "get rich quick" reasons and are not genuine Philippine patriots. Their motive, we have discovered, is to be able to convince Malaysians that they are genuine Sulu royalty and pro-Philippine Sabah claim supporters in order to extract from Malaysia (which has control of Sabah today) a premium for letting go of the Sabah claim.

For more information on the Philippine Sabah claim, please join the ongoing discussions by clicking on the following link on Facebook: Philippine Sabah Claim Forum

Pages

Sunday, 26 January 2014

The Mindanao Factor will haunt President Aquino if...

"Yes,
the Mindanao Factor will haunt this president if the pudding cooked by
the bilateral chefs does not accommodate the entire country at the
banquet. The best leaders are the ones who listen best and who engage
the opponent with a strong respect for unvarnished dialogue. Practice
truth and fear nothing!"

The Inquirer wrote that Mr Aquino remains wary
of those who would want to spoil the gains of a peace agreement between
the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The
Inquirer also asked the Chief Executive if there might be people from
the MNLF who might be agitated by a peace agreement between government
and the MILF. Mr Aquino said:

“Yes,
I am sure. It could be the BIFF (Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters),
or it could be some other group. They might be a new group.”

My view:

His
Excellency, President Benigno Aquino Jr., must of course be wary not
only of Nur Musuari but also of every Filipino Moslem who at some point
in their lives walked both sides of war and peace in search of 'self
determination.'He
must also be wary of Filipino Lumads and Christians who comprise the
majority of poor Filipinos without a visible promise of opportunity. We
must also all remember, along with the President, that there have been
many other Deals reached and signed before he came along, one in
particular not yet implemented. And it was not because of 'spoilers'.

Spoilers
are but a very small number of people who are aware of ongoing business
and want theur voices heard. Ask the lonely fisherman in Sacol: What
about the new deal, and he would have no clue. They just live and die by
the bullet, the fire, or the poverty they all inherited decade after
decade.

Yes, the Mindanao Factor will haunt this
president if the pudding cooked by the bilateral chefs does not
accomodate the entire country at the banquet. The best leaders are the
ones who listen best and who engage the opponent with a strong respect
for unvarnished dialogue. Practice truth and fear Nothing!

~~~~O~~~~

Yolanda Ortega Stern is the President at One World Institute,
a US registered NGO for health, education, livelihood, disaster relief;
Mr Stern has given her permission for the publication of her view on
this blog.

President
Benigno Aquino III said he did not consider Nur Misuari, the fugitive
founding chair of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a “spent
force,” as he remained wary of those who would want to spoil the gains
of a peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF).

“Yes,
I am sure. It could be the BIFF (Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters),
or it could be some other group. They might be a new group,” the
President said when asked in an interview with the Inquirer on Wednesday
if there could be people from the MNLF who might be agitated by a peace
agreement between government and the MILF.

Government
and MILF negotiators completed talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
yesterday on the normalization annex, the last document that would
complete a peace agreement between the two parties aimed at ending four
decades of fighting in central Mindanao.

Asked
if he considered Misuari a spent force, the President said in Filipino:
“I won’t say that. If you are a terrorist, even if there are only three
of you, it’s enough. Even if you’re alone, it’s enough.”

Hunting Misuari

Authorities
are hunting Misuari for instigating his followers to take over
Zamboanga City in September last year, claiming that the government
abrogated the 1996 peace agreement with the MNLF after it proposed to
wind down the tripartite review of the organic law facilitated by
Indonesia.

The
government and the MNLF are reviewing some provisions of the organic
law creating the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Mr.
Aquino once described the ARMM as a “failed experiment.”

In the Zamboanga siege, Misuari loyalists took hostage more than 200 residents and left a part of the city in ruins.

It
was the first urban warfare fought by the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, and the worst security threat faced by Mr. Aquino’s
three-year-old administration. As commander in chief, the President
personally oversaw the military operations to expel the rebels from
Zamboanga.

Lost cause

President Aquino said spoilers would certainly be “alienated” once the people started to feel the gains of a peace agreement.

“We
start off with a vast majority who is no longer supportive of your (the
spoilers’) clandestine activities … There would be no more safe havens.
It would be difficult for the bandit groups. If electricity is
disrupted, a bridge is blown up and the produce is not brought to the
market … All of this, would they gain sympathy? Probably not, so the
majority will tell the others, we are living quiet lives and you don’t
want to help us? So the more they would be alienated. The more they
would become a lost cause, a weak factor,” Mr. Aquino said.

The
President said reports reaching him indicated that other MNLF factions
were supportive of the peace initiatives of the government.

Defenders of Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims

Defenders of Philippine Sovereignty

Click on picture to access Blog

NEMO NOS IMPUNE LACESSIT

"No one hits us with impunity!" (Click on picture to access Blog)

WHAT IS THE SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY?

The SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY blog serves as a repository of articles, documents, researches, and other publised material to help us all understand what the Philippine Sabah claim is all about and where it is at today. Our aim is to provide a 'pedagogical' platform, a learning tool that everyone is invited to use to discuss and learn about the standing Philippine Sabah claim.

For information, the SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY is NOT under the aegis of any Sultanate of Sulu group nor of any Facebook group linked to/headed by indviduals purporting to be sultan of Sulu, grand prince marshal, duke/duchess, count, viscount, marquis, baron, lord, lady, etc., etc. These European sounding nobility titles do not exist in the genuine Tausug or Sulu Sultanate culture and are therefore fake, a pure invention.

We are not a part of any government or non-governmental institution or agency whatsoever. We are just a group of genuine individual patriots who have come together from different parts of the globe to enforce and support the tenet that sovereignty rights of the Republic of the Philippines over Sabah must and should remain supreme.

WE GO BY THE DICTUM OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS SENATOR JOVITO SALONGA, FATHER OF THE PHILIPPINE SABAH CLAIM

"If, despite the assumed knowledge of the validity and justice of the Philippine claim, we fold our arms in mortal fear, we should lose not merely the respect of all law-abiding nations (the United Kingdom and the Asian countries in particular), but also a considerable measure of self-respect — which, to my mind, is more important — and, by our own inaction and timidity, lose our faith in the ultimate validity of that which is right and just. If, on the other hand, we come to the conclusion that the Philippine claim is without basis, then we should say so and let the British Government know our stand. Such candor and probity will undoubtedly inspire the respect of the entire free world."